--------------Joe: Most criticisims of ID stem from ignorance and jealousy.Joe: As for the authors of the books in the Bible, well the OT was authored by Moses and the NT was authored by various people.Byers: The eskimo would not need hairy hair growth as hair, I say, is for keeping people dry. Not warm.

Abstract (provisional)BackgroundCellular life with complex metabolism probably evolved during the reign of RNA, when it served as both information carrier and enzyme. Jensen proposed that enzymes of primordial cells possessed broad specificities: they were generalist. When and under what conditions could primordial metabolism run by generalist enzymes evolve to contemporary-type metabolism run by specific enzymes?

ResultsHere we show by numerical simulation of an enzyme-catalyzed reaction chain that specialist enzymes spread after the invention of the chromosome because protocells harbouring unlinked genes maintain largely non-specific enzymes to reduce their assortment load. When genes are linked on chromosomes, high enzyme specificity evolves because it increases biomass production, also by reducing taxation by side reactions.

ConclusionThe constitution of the genetic system has a profound influence on the limits of metabolic efficiency. The major evolutionary transition to chromosomes is thus proven to be a prerequisite for a complex metabolism. Furthermore, the appearance of specific enzymes opens the door for the evolution of their regulation.

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My take: another nail in the "islands of function" meme that Gardon "Golfball Through a Gardenhose" Mullings likes to abuse.

Speaking of OOL, about a week or so since I read an article about a possible environment for OOL. A discovery on Greenland, in rock or sediment area of about the right age, consisting of some sort of mud. The article mentioned the probable characteristics of the environment at the time as more conducive to OOL than black smokers, they may be too hot for OOL processes.

Speaking of OOL, about a week or so since I read an article about a possible environment for OOL. A discovery on Greenland, in rock or sediment area of about the right age, consisting of some sort of mud. The article mentioned the probable characteristics of the environment at the time as more conducive to OOL than black smokers, they may be too hot for OOL processes.

I'm not familiar with Snelling. It sounds like you've encountered him/her before.

Andrew Snelling is a big name in Young-Earth Creationism who is noted for his 'double life'óon the one hand, he is the Editor in Chief of the Creationist magazine Answers Reseach Journal (which seems to have only one editorÖ); on the other hand, he has published a number of real scientific papers in the field of geology, papers which make just as much use of the standard millions-of-years timescale as do papers written by any real geologist.